a cool interaction with coveted falcon is to give control of your OWN auras that you've used to frogify or w/e since who owns it doesn't really matter for the effect
@@sallomon2357 if you give your opponent the aura, then instead of it checking whether you control the detective, itll check whether they control it. so if you play it on an opponents detective to debuff it, then give that opponent the aura, itll start buffing that detective instead
Something to note about Cryptic Coat: It doesn't have an equip ability. You mentioned that it can create a new body if you don't have another around. However, you cannot equip it to another creature without using its enter the battlefield trigger. I don't think this really lowers the grade on the card much if at all. it does mean you can't move it around and equip it to whatever creature is most threatening. This lowers it flexibility, makes resetting it cost 5 mana, and requires you to untap to start attacking with an equipped creature again. However, it's still a 3 mana 3/2 unblockable creature which can potentially flip over to upgrade itself, can come back if removed while leaving behind the previous body, and it's even an artifact for decks which care about that. Apologies if you already knew about this and I'm misunderstanding you. Since you didn't call this out, I figured it would be good to make sure other realized this as well.
Conspirency unraveler has an advantage in this particular set i think. Due to the abundance of clues you are less likely to be emptyhanded and even if you sink your mana into cracking clues, it gives you the option to still play whatever you have drawn. Hard to say how relevant all this will be but i think its probably closer to a b.
Maze gives hexproof to any creature you control with a Vehicle in play, and the Vehicle can protect itself. That sounds great or horrible with Schooner in Standard
Surveillance Monitor (23:28) I dunno, I kinda agree here but also I kinda don't. On curve this is terrible for its face value. You wont be able to collect evidence on curve. BUT if you are playing on curve and you build around it you do set yourself up to be rewarded by it. But just.... it seems kinda.... not enough? I dunno though. Cause so far this set seems very much like its a bit of a slower format. So maybe its B worthy
11:50 Will disguised creatures still be enchanted after flipping? And do you get to look at the facedown creature before shuffling them into the library?
Enchantments, counters. Even wether or not it is suspected all stay on the creature. Since it never leaves the battlefield. And i believe if a face down creature moves zones, you're allowed to see what it was.
Behind the Mask on an unblocked Ornithopter is +4 damage, which could close out the game in some decks. A decent combat trick if you have a bunch of 0/0 creatures with +1/+1 counters on them. Also makes Batterskull into an 8/7 or Kaldra Compleat into a 9/8 until the end of turn.
I think Reenact the Crime might be stronger than it looks, because it says "card" not "permanent". Unless I'm mistaken, card means any spell. So if your opponent casts removal, so do you; same with a big draw spell, recursion, etc. I think it might fit best in a self mill deck, as a pseudo second copy of your best card, in case you mill it. It's still highly situational and (Blue) mana intensive, but I think the fact it can copy ANY card makes it deserve a little better than a D. I dunno how much better than that, but I think most Blue decks won't mind it.
Surprised that while reviewing Exit Specialist you didn't mention that UG Bird guy from KTK, who at least partially seems to have influenced her design... ...unless I'm the only one who remembers that card 😅
While Intrude on the Mind looks similar to FoF, it's actually an inversion of the effect . In the latter, an opponent makes the piles and you select, which is far superior in most cases. Examples of the former include Epiphany at the Drownyard and Steam Augury, neither of which saw any real play to the best of my recollection. While IotM offers additional upside in the form of a 1/1-5/5 flyer, giving the opponent a high degree of control over the outcome always feels pretty dubious to me. My personal estimate would place it closer to a C, but I look forward to seeing how it shakes out.
There is a 0% chance it's a C. Your opponent gets the choice, it's true -- but you make the piles. You're going to end up netting cards and getting a body at instant speed no matter. Maybe it's not a bomb, but there's no way a card like that is a C.
@@NizzahonMagic Fair enough. It could just be that I've felt burned by most of these so-called successors to FoF, but I'll maintain my objection to the A+ ranking until we receive any significant data to the contrary.
@@NizzahonMagicAlso, you mentioned a 2/2 flier or 3/3, the best outcome is often 1 or 4, best card + 4/4 with flash or 4 cards and a 1/1 is super powerful no matter your opponents choice. Imo 1/4 split is probably optimal if you find a card that is better than the rest
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a cool interaction with coveted falcon is to give control of your OWN auras that you've used to frogify or w/e since who owns it doesn't really matter for the effect
funnily, the frogify variant (Burdent of Proof) can have a different effect based on who controls it
@@littlel9906 nah, it works with the bird. It checks whether you control the CREATURE, not the Aura.
@@sallomon2357 if you give your opponent the aura, then instead of it checking whether you control the detective, itll check whether they control it. so if you play it on an opponents detective to debuff it, then give that opponent the aura, itll start buffing that detective instead
@@littlel9906 oh, right. Magic's nuances, I guess 😅
Agency Outfitter is already a 5/5 flyer because you can use glass to pay for the equip cost of the cap.
That is assuming you have both cards but yeah it’s cool just a lot of pieces for a 5/5 flyer with a little upside
I'm probably not going to draft this set, but I am going to fall asleep to this video. GG
Any old school anime fans out there would be keen to point out there is a spirit detective in this set. 😁
Ah, my favorite anime, Columbo
Yu Yu Hakusho was definitely ahead of it's time.
Spirit GUN!
i love the flavor of bubble smuggler... this smart lil guy steals some kind of solution that mutates it into some huge beast!
Something to note about Cryptic Coat: It doesn't have an equip ability. You mentioned that it can create a new body if you don't have another around. However, you cannot equip it to another creature without using its enter the battlefield trigger.
I don't think this really lowers the grade on the card much if at all. it does mean you can't move it around and equip it to whatever creature is most threatening. This lowers it flexibility, makes resetting it cost 5 mana, and requires you to untap to start attacking with an equipped creature again. However, it's still a 3 mana 3/2 unblockable creature which can potentially flip over to upgrade itself, can come back if removed while leaving behind the previous body, and it's even an artifact for decks which care about that.
Apologies if you already knew about this and I'm misunderstanding you. Since you didn't call this out, I figured it would be good to make sure other realized this as well.
Conspirency unraveler has an advantage in this particular set i think. Due to the abundance of clues you are less likely to be emptyhanded and even if you sink your mana into cracking clues, it gives you the option to still play whatever you have drawn. Hard to say how relevant all this will be but i think its probably closer to a b.
Why does 'Weird Detective' as a creature type just make me happy?
It fits Izzet to a tea
Maze gives hexproof to any creature you control with a Vehicle in play, and the Vehicle can protect itself. That sounds great or horrible with Schooner in Standard
Surveillance Monitor (23:28) I dunno, I kinda agree here but also I kinda don't. On curve this is terrible for its face value. You wont be able to collect evidence on curve. BUT if you are playing on curve and you build around it you do set yourself up to be rewarded by it.
But just.... it seems kinda.... not enough? I dunno though. Cause so far this set seems very much like its a bit of a slower format. So maybe its B worthy
11:50 Will disguised creatures still be enchanted after flipping? And do you get to look at the facedown creature before shuffling them into the library?
Enchantments, counters. Even wether or not it is suspected all stay on the creature. Since it never leaves the battlefield. And i believe if a face down creature moves zones, you're allowed to see what it was.
The Sphinx would be much better if it was the other way around: that you could collect evidence 10 to cast the Sphinx
Behind the Mask on an unblocked Ornithopter is +4 damage, which could close out the game in some decks. A decent combat trick if you have a bunch of 0/0 creatures with +1/+1 counters on them. Also makes Batterskull into an 8/7 or Kaldra Compleat into a 9/8 until the end of turn.
I think Reenact the Crime might be stronger than it looks, because it says "card" not "permanent". Unless I'm mistaken, card means any spell. So if your opponent casts removal, so do you; same with a big draw spell, recursion, etc. I think it might fit best in a self mill deck, as a pseudo second copy of your best card, in case you mill it.
It's still highly situational and (Blue) mana intensive, but I think the fact it can copy ANY card makes it deserve a little better than a D. I dunno how much better than that, but I think most Blue decks won't mind it.
It is any spell. I evaluated it as such.
I think Nizza was right on the money with this one. Looks fun in commander, I'm not touching it in limited.
Surprised that while reviewing Exit Specialist you didn't mention that UG Bird guy from KTK, who at least partially seems to have influenced her design...
...unless I'm the only one who remembers that card 😅
Icefeather Aven was sweet.
@@NizzahonMagic probably my favourite card from the set :D
Nizza really going for the limited set review% record lately.
I feel like Projektor Inspector is the kind of card that will be absolutely nuts in certain decks, and kind of meh in others
Case of filcehed falcon is pretty brutal in constructed if used to animate indestructible land.
Also super easy to solve because of said lands
Do cases stay solved once they are once?
yep!
Why no Sherlock Holmes secret lair
They wouldn’t need any permission, all of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories are in the public domain.
17:37 this is drowsing tyranodon erasure smh
That was the last time one was good, and the fact it could turn off its requirement all on its own was a big deal!
While Intrude on the Mind looks similar to FoF, it's actually an inversion of the effect . In the latter, an opponent makes the piles and you select, which is far superior in most cases. Examples of the former include Epiphany at the Drownyard and Steam Augury, neither of which saw any real play to the best of my recollection. While IotM offers additional upside in the form of a 1/1-5/5 flyer, giving the opponent a high degree of control over the outcome always feels pretty dubious to me. My personal estimate would place it closer to a C, but I look forward to seeing how it shakes out.
There is a 0% chance it's a C. Your opponent gets the choice, it's true -- but you make the piles. You're going to end up netting cards and getting a body at instant speed no matter.
Maybe it's not a bomb, but there's no way a card like that is a C.
@@NizzahonMagic Fair enough. It could just be that I've felt burned by most of these so-called successors to FoF, but I'll maintain my objection to the A+ ranking until we receive any significant data to the contrary.
@@NizzahonMagicAlso, you mentioned a 2/2 flier or 3/3, the best outcome is often 1 or 4, best card + 4/4 with flash or 4 cards and a 1/1 is super powerful no matter your opponents choice. Imo 1/4 split is probably optimal if you find a card that is better than the rest
@@Hornet-bz4xg there will be times when getting 5 cards or a 5/5 flyer will both win you the game. This is an awesome bomb.
@@LazarusIsBackBaby Yeah it's a fantastic card and fantastic card design that makes it deceptively powerful
This whole set is lower powered so I feel many of the cards you're giving a c will be better.
Sorry but your review of Conspiracy Unraveler didnt make any sense.
In what way?
It hurt my heart to be the one who moved the like number past 69….😢